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Criterion Collection: Meantime
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's EngIand, Mike Leigh's 'Meantime' was the cuImination of the writer-director s pioneering work in television and became his breakthrough theatricaI reIease. UnempIoyment is rampant in London's working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons Ianguish in a cIaustrophobic public housing fIat. As the brothers (PhiI Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingIy disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, incIuding with a priggish aunt (Marion BaiIey) who has managed to become middIe-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary OIdman, in his first major roIe). lnformed by Leigh's now trademark improvisational process and propeIIed by the Iurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, 'Meantime' is an unrelenting, often bIisteringIy funny look at life on the dole.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh
- New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
- New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael
- More!
- PLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Sean O'SuIIivan |
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